Toihikinawa ("probing pulling rope") is a device for finding your way back the way you came in the pitch dark. From the Shinobi Hiden (Ninpiden) inscribed as early as the 1560s to the 1650s. It is used in a similar way to a distance line.
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- The Secret Traditions of the Shinobi, Hattoro Hanzos Shinobi Hiden and other ninja scrolls. Edited and translated by Anthony Cummins and Yoshie Minami